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Fairhope council authorizes mayor to negotiate parking-lot solution after restaurant warns of week-long closure
Summary
Brent Barkin, a co-owner of the Blind Tiger restaurant, told the Fairhope City Council on June 9 that city-directed construction near the pier will force his business to close for about a week and asked the council to consider compensation or rent relief.
Brent Barkin, a co-owner of the Blind Tiger restaurant, told the Fairhope City Council on June 9 that city-directed construction near the pier will force his business to close for about a week and asked the council to consider compensation or rent relief.
Barkin said he and his co-owners were notified with roughly five days' notice and that the closure would cost roughly $30,000 in weekly sales and about $4,500 in lost tips for service staff. “When all these other closures, if a customer comes down to the restaurant on a day that they expect the restaurant to be open and the restaurant's not…
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